Melissa PraxWish you could avoid those lengthy airport lines? If you're in Egypt, you can apparently just bribe an airport official and skip security.
A British traveler told Sky News that he paid an airport worker about £20 to skip the airport's security lines a few months ago.
This comes as officials continue to investigate Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh airport, the takeoff location for the airplane that went down over the Sinai peninsula — killing all 224 people on board.
Egyptian officials say it's too soon to know what the cause of the crash was, but several countries, including the U.S., suspect it was a bomb.
Bribery happens every day in Egypt. There's an Egyptian site aimed at ending the corruption where citizens can post what they paid bribes for. A lot of the posts include bribes paid for getting out of a traffic ticket or getting a driver's license.
Even though government employees may seem greedy for asking and accepting bribes, low minimum wages in Egypt for public sector workers could be part of the problem.
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